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The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (2006)

On the basis of the historical agreement reached between the Seven Political Parties and the CPN (Maoists) on November 8, 2006, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed between the Government of Nepal (GoN) and the CPN (Maoist) on 21 November 2006. In short, the CPA is called the Peace Agreement, which declared the end of the ten-year armed conflict and a beginning of a new chapter of peaceful collaboration through political consensus between the GoN and the CPN (Maoist) towards ensuring the sovereignty of the Nepali people through forward looking political resolution, democratic restructuring of the state and economic-social and cultural transformation.

The deal has its origins in the November 2005 SPA-Maoist agreement signed in New Delhi, which provided a basis for the April movement and a guiding framework for subsequent compromises. The peace agreement charts a course towards elections for a Constituent Assembly (CA) following formation of an interim legislature and government including the Maoists. In a detailed agreement on arms management, the Maoists have committed to cantonment of their fighters and locking up their weapons under UN supervision; the Nepalese Army (NA) will be largely confined to barracks. The Constituent Assembly, to be elected through a mixed first-past-the-post and proportional system, will also decide the future of the monarchy.

http://www.peace.gov.np/admin/doc/CPA_eng-ver-corrected.pdf